Italian Air Force Identifies Russian An-12 Off Estonia In First Ever Intercept By F-35 Supporting NATO BAP
Italian Air Force Identifies Russian An-12 Off Estonia In First Ever Intercept By F-35 Supporting NATO BAP
File photo of an F-35A supporting NATO mission in Iceland in 2019 (Image credit: Author)
The Italian F-35 jets deployed to Estonia, scored their first intercept under NATO command in the Baltic region.
On May 14, 2021, the Italian Air Force F-35 aircraft deployed to Ämari Air Base, Estonia, to support NATO’s Baltic Air Policing (BAP) mission, were scrambled and executed their first intercept.
“The Combined Air Operations Centre at Uedem, Germany, recorded an unidentified track in the Baltic Sea flying from mainland Russia to Kaliningrad and ordered an alert scramble for the F-35s mission to identify that track. Upon take-off, the Italian NATO aircraft approached and identified a Russian An-12 transport aircraft executing the first ever intercept by an F-35 under
Apr 21 2021
NATO fighter jets intercept Russian military aircraft over the Baltic Sea
RAMSTEIN, Germany - NATO scrambled fighter jets from bases in Estonia, Lithuania and Poland to track and intercept Russian fighters, bombers and surveillance aircraft over the Baltic Sea on April 20.
NATO radars tracked unidentified aircraft over the Baltic Sea on Tuesday morning. In response, NATOâs Combined Air Operations Centre (CAOC) at Uedem, Germany, launched allied fighter aircraft in the Baltic region to intercept and identify the approaching aircraft. Some of the aircraft tracks were not identifiable by transponder signal and no flight plan had been filed. This may pose a flight safety hazard because civilian Air Traffic Control may not be able to track them and de-conflict with civilian air traffic.
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Monday was an unusually busy day for the NATO alliance fighter jets as they scrambled 10 times to intercept Russian military flights over the North Atlantic, North Sea, Black Sea, and Baltic Sea within a span of six hours.
According to a NATO press release, the allied aircraft were scrambled 10 times on Monday to shadow this “unusual peak of flights” by Russian military aircraft, intercepting six different groups near alliance airspace in six hours.
“Intercepting multiple groups of Russian aircraft demonstrates NATO forces’ readiness and capability to guard Allied skies 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year,” said Brigadier General Andrew Hansen, Deputy Chief of Staff Operations at Allied Air Command, Ramstein, Germany.
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